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16. A French perfume house has developed a scent that evokes a remembrance of what?
A. a Peugeot fresh from the showroom
B. bacon
C. unboxing an Apple MacBook
D. mimeograph ink
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17. Apple applied for a patent for a keyboard that could be made of what material?
A. five nanometer–thick graphene
B. environmentally sustainable hardwoods
C. polished meteorite
D. a lightweight, rigid plastic for which Apple also holds a patent
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21. What was the distance achieved by Ere Karjalainen, the winner of the 12th annual World Phone Throwing championships in Savonlinna, Finland?
A. one meter more than the maximum distance between the try lines (goal lines) of a regulation rugby pitch
B. 6.175 double-decker buses
C. 3.75 average blue whales
D. exact distance unknown, because the phones were thrown into the Koululahti waterway
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23. What do male fruit flies who have been sexually rejected do?
A. drink booze
B. engage in male-to-male sexual stimulation
C. fly as high as they can until exhausted, then fall to their deaths
D. lie about their failure to other male fruit flies
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25. What movie did the Vatican declare to be a "modern classic" and "now enshrined as a masterpiece"?
A. Ben Hur
B. Bedtime for Bonzo
C. Braveheart
D. Blues BrothersAnswer

26. Place the following movies in the order in which Reg readers voted them as being the worst five of all time (worst first).
A. Highlander II
B. Avatar
C. The Phantom Menace
D. Battlefield Earth
E. TwilightAnswer

30. According to a Cisco survey, which of the following would an IT manager not prefer over migrating his or her business to a private or public cloud?
A. getting a root canal
B. digging a ditch
C. eating soap
D. doing his or her taxes
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